IRON SAVIOR frontman/founder Piet Sielck has checked in with the following update:

"After long and intensive thinking I came to the conclusion that I cannot uphold any further engagement for SAVAGE CIRCUS anymore and hereby officially quit.

I am proud of what has been achieved, but I just cannot imagine myself doing songwriting and production more or less completely alone for a third time. This has drained too much energy in the past, which was needed in more important spots. I am not willing to make such a sacrifice again.

Therefore, I put the fate of Savage Circus in the hands of Emil and Jens, who's decision it may also be to correct the band's completely fictional founding legend or not.

Savage Circus has been absolutely challenging... but my heart beats for Iron Savior. And music simply is a matter of the heart!"

\m/ Piet \m/

Sielck recently spoke with BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai about the new Iron Savior album, The Landing. Following is an excerpt from the story:

With renewed interest in Iron Savior it’s doubtful that Savage Circus will be offering up new material any time soon. Launched in 2004, the project was viewed as a superficial endeavour by many due to the similarities to Iron Savior and Blind Guardian. Nobody seems to miss Savage Circus, Sielck included.

“Right now I don’t have any specific plans for Savage Circus; it’s on ice. The album was okay, but it also wasn’t that encouraging to be honest. I started up Iron Savior again and I want to do this 100%, so we’ll see what happens with Savage Circus. Iron Savior is what I feel that I want to do; Savage Circus was something that was, in a way, artificial. It’s not really the kind of music that I want to do. I can do it, I enjoy doing it, and it was challenging for me to write all the songs for it, but I feel closer to the more straightforward metal sound of Iron Savior.”
“I think one of the reasons The Landing is a bit different from the Megatropolis album, which was more rock-like, is because I pushed Iron Savior more to the rock side of things in order to put some distance between Iron Savior and Savage Circus. That wasn’t the case this time at all. I just wrote what I wanted. Sure, some of the new songs could have been Savage Circus, but I didn’t care. I had no expectations with this album at all, I was pretty much done with the music industry and being an artist. But, the songs and the album are here because I do in fact want to do this, I want to be here.”

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Iron Savior released the The Landing on November 18th in Europe via AFM Records. The album will now be released in North America on January 17th, 2012.

The Landing tracklisting:

‘Descending’

‘The Savior’

‘Starlight’

‘March Of Doom’

‘Heavy Metal Never Dies’

‘Moment In Time’

‘Hall Of The Heroes’

‘R. U. Ready’

‘Faster Than All’

‘Before The Pain’

‘No Guts No Glory’